{"id":6240,"date":"2013-07-13T02:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2013-07-13T02:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T02:06:36","slug":"36-may-2-1968-vol-09-volume-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/03-agenda\/09-volume-09\/36-may-2-1968-vol-09-volume-09","title":{"rendered":"-36_May 2_1968.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><H3>May 2, 1968<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Your P.L. is coming back!<\/p>\n<p><i>What an avalanche of telegrams! And it&#8217;s not over: here&#8217;s one<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;more [Satprem<br \/>\n  reads Mother a telegram in which P. L. announces<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;a mysterious &quot;new fact&quot; and implores to be allowed to stay with<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;his friend J. for &quot;grave reasons&quot;].<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Then let him stay with her! He suddenly got scared stiff over there. It&#8217;s true that their occult power is very great and one has to be very strong to resist it. And he got scared stiff. That&#8217;s what made him sick. My own feeling is that the other fellow, this Monsignor R., wanted to get rid of him&#8230;. Seriously, I think he smelled something fishy and said, &#8220;He&#8217;d better leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>He doesn&#8217;t have the strength, obviously.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>No, he doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><i>But you know, he&#8217;s really a victim: when he was seven, his <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>mother sent him to a friars&#8217; convert in Spain &#8230; till the age of<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;eighteen!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>Poor man!<\/p>\n<p><i>In Spain! You know, that inexorable Christianity &#8230; From<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&nbsp;seven<br \/>\n  to eighteen &#8211; it&#8217;s dreadful!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><P>No, he&#8217;s a very nice man, but vitally not strong enough. But if he lived in a convent for so many years, then I understand&#8230;.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(Mother remains concentrated<\/i><P align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;for a<br \/>\nlong time)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the end of this affair.<br \/>\n<P align=\"right\"><i>(long silence)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>J. is troubled because he demands a lot of attention. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">Page 121<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><P>Who had thought of him for the post of cardinal?<\/p>\n<p><i>I don&#8217;t know, but it was expected.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>It was expected&#8230;. It must have been a political affair, because &#8230; In fact, I think it&#8217;s generally a political affair.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oh, yes, it&#8217;s nothing but politics.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8230; Because he&#8217;s much too passionate for the job. Was it to be for now or later?<\/p>\n<p><i>I don&#8217;t know.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><P>I am asking you because that may be the &#8220;new fact&#8221; he&#8217;s referring to. Maybe a decision has been made&#8230;. As for me, I had a strong impression that the other fellow [Msgr. R.] wanted to get rid of him for some reason or other. We&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\">* * *<br \/>\n<P align=\"center\"><i>(Then Mother goes into a long contemplation<\/i><P align=\"center\"><i>&nbsp;which<br \/>\nwill last till the end.)<\/i><br \/>\n<P>I keep having an impression of something IMPORTANT that has begun&#8230;. But it will go on for a very long time, probably. It will take a very long time.<P align=\"center\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">Page 122<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2, 1968 Your P.L. is coming back! What an avalanche of telegrams! And it&#8217;s not over: here&#8217;s one &nbsp;more [Satprem reads Mother a telegram&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-09-volume-09","wpcat-144-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}